i think the people who matter most of all in this debate is not rush limbaugh, hannity, it's not those conservative talk show hosts and entertainers, it's really people like sensenbrenner in the house, cantor who will decide whether or not this actually comes to a vote. he said back in june after the decision was handed down and also after he made a trip down to se salma, he thought he could work out a deal, a bipartisan deal. he's been talking to kirsten gillibrand. you imagine those folks probably will not vote for this, the reauthorization of the voting rights act or any more sort of preclearance because they feel like it would stigmatize their own backyard. >> here's the thing on that, though, here again, you've got this conundrum where you have all good work going on, believe everybody is sincere but then, again, they've got those dog whistle politics going on, stoking up their own base against what they say they're trying to work on. >> this is a catch 22, right? which is we need bipartisan support, especially in the house to get this through. we can't frame this exclusively as a